Per-game JKSV save guides for Pokemon, Animal Crossing, Minecraft, Zelda and more.
Many Switch 1 owners run their CFW world inside emuMMC, an emulated copy of the console’s internal storage living on the SD card. The saves in there are real saves, and getting them out to a PC — for backup, editing or migration — is a standard JKSV job once you understand what emuMMC means…
Ryujinx is a Nintendo Switch emulator for PC, and one of its most-used features is continuing a game where the real console left off. Because JKSV exports genuine save files and Ryujinx stores saves in its own per-game folders on the PC, the two can exchange saves for the same game. This guide explains the…
Moving a Breath of the Wild or Tears of the Kingdom save between Switch consoles is one of the most common reasons players install JKSV: a new console, a borrowed machine, or keeping progress on two Switch 1 systems. The transfer is a straightforward export-and-restore, provided you respect user matching and verify at each end….
Minecraft on Switch stores your worlds inside the game’s save data, and two JKSV jobs matter here: backing those worlds up before anything goes wrong, and resizing the save when a growing world needs more room than it originally had. Both are covered in this guide. You need JKSV from our download page on a…
Animal Crossing: New Horizons breaks the rule most players assume: there is no per-player island save to back up in the usual way. The island is a single piece of Device, or shared, save data belonging to the whole console. Back up the wrong thing and your ‘backup’ contains everything except the island. This guide…
The classic JKSV workflow reaches its full power with Pokémon: back up the save on the Switch, edit it on a PC with PKHeX, and restore it to the console. PKHeX is a free Pokémon save editor that runs on PC, and JKSV is the bridge that gets the save off the console and back…
